Re: [Mingw-users] How to deal with older versions of automake (< 1.11)

[Charles W. <cwi...@us...>]

On 7/2/2010 9:26 AM, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> can you say how do you deal with packages which require automake <
> 1.11 (the version actually shipped with MSYS)?

Are you trying to compile a package so that the end result requires the
msys DLL?  In that case you can usually just run "autoreconf" in the
source dir and The Right Thing will happen.  There may be some warnings
you'd want to fix, but...


However, if you are simply trying to use the MSYS environment to build a
native win32 application, then we provide EVERY version of automake:
they are called automakeX.Y-*-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma.  Unpack them under
your C:\MinGW directory, NOT C:\msys\1.0.  Ditto for the matching
autoconfX.Y-*-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma packages and libtool-*-mingw32-bin.

These all work together using a wrapper system (install
automake-*-mingw32-bin and autoconf-*-mingw32-bin -- note there is no
version number attached directly to the package name in the case of the
wrappers)

--
Chuck